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Current Position: Full Professor; Co-Director, Carleton Centre for Public History; Company Historian, English Theatre, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Degrees & Employment: BA, MA (Auckland), PhD (Cambridge); Fellow Royal Historical Society; Life Member,Clare Hall, Cambridge; formerly Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (1983-1984)and Lecturer in History, Goldsmiths' College, University of London (1983-1994)
Recent publications: “Elizabeth’s Lottery: Political Culture and State Formation in Early Modern England” , forthcoming, Journal of British Studies 50.3 (July 2011); “Parliament” in S. Doran and N. Jones, The Elizabethan World (Routledge, 2010), 113-29; “Museums as conflict zones: the Canadian War Museum and Bomber Command”, Museum & Society 7.1 (2009); “A Historian Among the Actors”, Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association (2008).